Beauty Quote by Carl Sagan

Here, as in so many other cases, however, it turns out that a very commonsensical idea looks far less attractive when one examines some…

— Hilary Kornblith

Our hypotheses are initially rooted in theoretical consistency and elegance, but...ultimatel y it is experiment not rigid belief that determines what is correct.

— Lisa Randall

Physics has never been a comfortable subject for human psychology. The desire to regard everything outside the human race's purview as insignificant, and everything…

— Celia Green

Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish…

— Isaac Newton

Modern science should indeed arouse in all of us a humility before the immensity of the unexplored and a tolerance for crazy hypotheses.

— Martin Gardner

Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but ... hypotheses may not.

— Jorge Luis Borges

I wish that one would be persuaded that psychological experiments, especially those on the complex functions, are not improved [by large studies]; the statistical…

— Alfred Binet

It may be unpopular and out-of-date to say-but I do not think that a scientific result which gives us a better understanding of the…

— Alfred Tarski

One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible.

— Charles Fort

No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man…

— Thomas Jefferson

We find in the course of nature that though the effects be many, the principles from which they arise are commonly few and simple,…

— David Hume

How insidious Nature is when one is trying to get at it experimentally.

— Albert Einstein